Susan E. Rushing M.D., J.D.

Haverford Square 385 Lancaster Ave, Suite 206 Haverford, PA 19041

(610) 726-1020

susan.rushingmdjd@gmail.com

Dr. Susan E. Rushing is a psychiatrist on the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania.
She is the founder of Holistic Cognitive Consultants, LLC.
Dr. Rushing treats patients in private practice in Haverford, PA and performs forensic evaluations as a consultant to judges and attorneys.

Dr. Rushing is active in resident and medical student education at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine and in Penn's psychiatry residency programs as the course director for Forensic Psychiatry.
She teaches Neurolaw in the Department of Criminology.
She lectures on topics of law and medicine around the country with focus in decision making capacity, surrogate decision maker laws, criminal law and mental illness.
Dr. Rushing's research investigates traumatic brain injury and violent behavior.
She has served as an expert witness in criminal, civil, and administrative matters.

Dr. Rushing earned her Bachelor of Science in Brain and Cognitive Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
M.D. at Yale School of Medicine, and J.D. at Stanford Law School.
Dr. Rushing completed her internship in pediatrics at Children's National Medical Center and residency in psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania,
where she also trained in forensic psychiatry and was a Clinical Research Scholar.
As a resident at Penn, she cared for adults and children at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (HUP), Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP),
Pennsylvania Hospital, the Philadelphia Veteran's Administration (VA) Medical Center and the Center for Cognitive Therapy (CCT).
She trained in specialty clinics for treatment resistent depression, women's mood disorders during pregnancy and post-partum,
and the evaluation of cognitive impairment including MCI and dementia.